Damascus Cover
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Synopsis
In this gripping political thriller based on the 1977 novel by Howard Kaplan, veteran agent Ari Ben-Sion (Jonathan Rhys Meyers, The Tudors, Match Point) is assigned by the Mossad to go undercover and smuggle a chemical weapons scientist and his family out of Syria. Within days, however, the mission falls apart and with the help of a deep cover agent code-named “The Angel,” Ari learns that he’s a pawn in a much larger plan. Also starring Olivia Thirlby (Juno) and John Hurt in his last film.
Cast
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
- Olivia Thirlby
- John Hurt
- Navid Negahban
- Tsahi Halevi
- Jürgen Prochnow
- Igal Naor
- Wolf Kahler
- Selva Rasalingam
- Neta Riskin
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The twist ending is muddled, and has a rather bland and emollient equivalence between intelligence agencies.
The serviceable but astonishingly generic Damascus Cover features the usual political-thriller tropes — tough but haunted protagonist, zigzag of foreign locales, rival spies, arcane twists, shifting allegiances, wedged-in romance — without adding much that feels unique or exciting.